She died at 6:30 pm. [break]
Yadav who was in her sixties was flown to New Delhi on Saturday itself on an air ambulance for treatment on her party´s request to the Indian embassy.
The Indian embassy in Kathmandu had facilitated her travel, admission to the hospital and security as per a SOS sent by the chief of the party´s foreign affairs department Krishna Bahadur Mahara.
Through the letter, the party requested the Indian side to help in arranging necessary security support for Yadav and four people accompanying her and also to support her admission to the hospital.
Mahara had also said in the letter that the request was made after doctors in Kathmandu referred her to in some better equipped hospital in India. The doctors at Bir Hospital, where she was taken for treatment, said they did not have the facilities required to treat such a severe case and recommended she be taken to India.
She was attended at the Safdarjung Hospital by Professor R P Narayan, the Indian embassy said.
She was elected to the CA from election constituency-6 of Dhanusha district.
She was the widow of senior communist leader, Ram Briksh Yadav, who has a Maoist brigade named after him. He died in 2051 BS before the Maoists began the People’s War and the Maoists accuse the then ruling parties of having a hand in his murder. He son Shekhar was killed during the insurgency some eight years ago. She is survived by four daughters.
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